Ujiri said that NBA commissioner Adam Silver was thinking about the potential ramifications of the coronavirus on both the NBA and society well ahead of the league having to shut down. He said he was at a meeting at the NBA’s headquarters in New York a few weeks earlier for an NBA Africa board meeting when, after the meeting ended, Silver began to speak about it. “After the meeting, Adam started talking about this virus,” Ujiri said. “And the way he talked about it, and how passionate he was about where this thing was going, it was incredible to see. “